ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,248, issued on July 14, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Exposure control device, imaging apparatus, exposure control method, and program of preventing inappropriate variation in brightness" was invented by Masato Fujii (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the present disclosure, there is provided an exposure control device configured to acquire an image signal output from an imaging element; acquire a specific subject region in an image represented by the image signal; calculate a first exposure value of a set region that is set in the image and a second exposure value of the subject region; decide a f...